IPv6 in FreeBSD

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Introduction

FreeBSD has shipped tightly integrated IPv6 support for over a decade,
with the FreeBSD 4.0 in 2000 the first release to include
"out-of-the-box" IPv6 support. These web pages document
on-going IPv6 development in the FreeBSD community, including
participation in IPv6 World Day 2011.

Latest news

January 12, 2012: 9.0-RELEASE no-IPv4 support (IPv6-only)
snapshots available. For more details and download links see
IPv6Only wiki page.

December 15, 2011: 9.0-RC3 no-IPv4 support (IPv6-only)
snapshots available. For more details and download links see
IPv6Only wiki page.

June 9, 2011: Thanks to everyone having joined us for World
IPv6 Day. We have some (unspectacular)
statistics of www.freebsd.org starting 12 hours before and running
until 12 hours after the event for you.

June 7, 2011: New set of IPv6-only snapshots uploaded. Now
with RFC 6106 DNS search list and nameserver support in
rtsol(8)
and
rtsold(8),
also when installing. Read more about the
snapshots here and find download links
and netinstall documentation on the wiki.

June 6, 2011: The FreeBSD Foundation and iXsystems announced
today their commitment to support the efforts of World IPv6 Day to
accelerate global IPv6 deployment. Read the
entire press release and find more information on FreeBSD and World
IPv6 Day here.

June 6, 2011: New set of IPv6-only snapshots uploaded.
Read more about the snapshots here and
find download links here.

IPv6 in FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a widely used, open source operating system whose network stack
has been the foundation for decades of research, as well as a reference
implementation of IPv6 (developed by the
KAME project).
FreeBSD first shipped IPv6 support in March 2000 as part of FreeBSD
4.0-Release.

IPv6 and the FreeBSD Project

The FreeBSD Project has been an early adopter and active participant in
the IPv6 community. With the help of the community, we have been
serving releases from IPv6-enabled servers since May 2003 and FreeBSD's
website, mailing lists, and developer infrastructure have been IPv6
enabled since 2007.

FreeBSD is used by critical Internet infrastructure such as root name
servers, routers, firewalls and some of the world's busiest and most
reliable web sites as well as embedded into many products all in the
need for the best IPv6 support. To read more about some companies
using the FreeBSD operating system in their products, see the
FreeBSD
Foundation Testimonials page.